THE AMERICAS: Agenda: Trouble

In a candid bid for new ideas on U.S. policy toward Latin America,
President Eisenhower last week appointed a six-man National Advisory
Committee on Inter-American Affairs, to be headed by Ike's brother Milton,
head of Johns Hopkins University and longtime presidential watchdog on
Latin American affairs. The President acted in the wake of worsening
relations with Panama and Cuba.

Trading Notes. Never before had a country off U.S. shores been as
unfriendly as Louisiana-sized Cuba, which engaged the U.S. in full-scale
diplomatic debate, taking obvious relish in every word. Off the presses of...